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802 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

tlemen, again, if you believe this, what opinion can you form
of the President? Certainly the worst you can form. You
would certainly consider him totally unfit for the high station
which he has s0 honorably filled, and with such benefit to his
country.

The traverser states that, under the auspices of the Presi-
dent, ‘‘our credit ig so low that we are obliged to borrow
money at eight per cent in time of peace.’’ I cannot sup-
press my feelings at thia gross attack upon the President.
Can this be true? Can you believe it? Are we now in time
of peacet Is there no wart No hostilities with France? Has
ahe not captured our vessels and plundered us of our prop-
erty to the amount of milliona? Haa not the intercourse been
prohibited with herf Have we not armed our vessels to de.
fend ourselves, and have we not captured several of her ves-
sels of wart Although no formal declaration of war has been
made, is it not notorious that actual hostilities have taken
place? And is this, then, a time of peace? The very expense
ineurred, which rendered a loan necessary, was in conse-
quenee of the conduct of France. The traverser, therefore,
has published an untruth, knowing it to be an untrath.

The other part of the publication is muck more offensive.
I do not allude to his assertions relating to the embassies to
Prussia, Russia, and the Sublime Porte. They are matters of
little consequence, and, therefore, I shall pass over them. The
part te which I allude is that where the traverser charges the
President with having influenced the judiciary department.
I know of no charge which can be more injurious to the
President than that of an attempt to influence a court of
judicature; the judicature of the country is of the greatest
consequence to the liberties and existence of a nation, If
your Constitution was destroyed, so long as the judiciary de
partment remained free and uncontrolled, the liberties of the
people would not be endangered. Suffer your courts of judi-
eature to be destroyed; there is an end to your liberties. The
traverser says that this interference was a stretch of an-
thority that the monarch of Great Britain would have shrunk

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